KOTTAYAM: Even as United Democratic Front (UDF) liaison committee convener P.P. Thankachan here on Tuesday declared that the coalition will keep away from the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the first EMS Ministry, M.V. Raghavan, leader of coalition partner Communist Marxist Party (CMP), made it clear that his party did not agree with the sentiments expressed at the UDF meeting.

"We do not subscribe to the view that the `liberation struggle' was right and that the policies of the first Communist Ministry were anti-people. We are keeping away from the celebrations only because we believe that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) and the present Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government have no moral right to claim the legacy of the first Communist Government," he told mediapersons here, after the UDF leaders' meet.

The EMS Government implemented the policies and programmes of the undivided Communist Party of India that was based on class struggle and considered farmers an integral part of it.

Today, the CPI(M) and its leadership had become agents of the bourgeoisie and the multinationals and themselves had become monopolies, he alleged.

The CMP would hold its own programmes to celebrate the 50th anniversary through a series of seminars and public meetings, he said.

Mr. Raghavan criticised Minister for Cooperation G. Sudhakaran for his reported remark that he had asked the Registrar of Cooperation to dismiss a member of the Thiruvananthapuram District Cooperative Bank Director Board.

The move was aimed at upsetting the power balance in the director board of Pariyaram Medical College. Any move in this direction would lead to more legal tangles, he said.

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